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A traffic infrastructure project on Gilman Street under Interstate 80 moved one step closer to realization after business owners, cycling advocates and community members met Jan. 7 to discuss the proposed renovation.Read More…

Amid growing pressure from the community, the city of Berkeley together with Caltrans and California Highway Patrol cleared the homeless encampment on Gilman Street near Interstate 80 on Thursday.Read More…

A traffic infrastructure renovation at the intersection of Gilman Street and Interstate 80 has moved closer to realization after Caltrans approved a proposed double roundabout design to address chronic traffic problems and a high number of accidents and complaints.Read More…

During a lecture on Monday, Sacramento Bee reporter Charles Piller talked to a classroom full of students and faculty on some of the more dangerous problems of the recently opened Bay Bridge, revealed in his 2011 investigation of the bridge’s construction.Read More…

On Friday, a senate committee held a hearing with the California Department of Transportation investigating several possible lapses in transparency and the construction of the recently unveiled San Francisco-Oakland Bay BridgeRead More…

Though gauging the relative danger of Berkeley’s streets remains difficult, data obtained from the police records shows that well over a hundred bicycle-involved collisions typically occur each year.Read More…